desidiose

English

Etymology

Latin desidiosus, from desidia (a sitting idle).

Adjective

desidiose (comparative more desidiose, superlative most desidiose)

  1. (obsolete) idle; lazy
    • 1844, Thomas Ewbank, The Spoon:
      There is no doubt that such a lady, when busily engaged in making "stirabout" for her family, would hasten the movements of a desidiose boy by applying the implement she was wielding to his sconce

References

Latin

Adjective

dēsidiōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēsidiōsus

References

  • desidiose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • desidiose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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